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Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) | 
| Director: Ennio De Concini
Actors: Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti
Studio: Paramount
Buy Used: $13.77
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 17071
Format: Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6300216489
UPC: 097360849035
EAN: 9786300216488
ASIN: 6300216489
Theatrical Release Date: May 9, 1973
Release Date: September 1, 1998
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Condition: previously viewed FACTORY ORIGINAL -original box has shelfwear-
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 Alec Guinness is Hitler! July 17, 2003
Roger Kennedy
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This vivid portrait of Hitler in his wanning days is nothing short of magnificent. This movie combines drama with documentry. Actually footage is cleverly interspaced during the movie to provide shocking reality checks to the bizarre events occuring in the bunker. In this movie we can see how Hitler became the victim of his own doomsday prophetcies. His cruelty remained with him to the last, and Guiness provides a emotional look at the last few days of his life. There will certainly be a debate over this movie and "The Bunker" with Anthony Hopkins. For me this was always the better film in terms of its intensity. The movie almost seems like a play and it moves along rapidly to its bitter finish. Some may think Guinness is too high strung in his Hitler, but his acting is nonetheless superb. Its seems almost like playing Hitler has become a main theatrical role to play. If so then Alec Guinness provides the leading example.
Don't Listen to ... September 19, 2001
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
... ... ...I thought this film was an unparalleled masterpiece of the fusion of cinema and ACCURATE history. I am a total World War buff and I can tell by watching this film that the filmmakers based much of this on the testimony of Hitler's private secretary, Traudl Junge, who was with the Fuhrer in the bunker and was friends with Eva Braun, as well as Albert Speer and other survivors who had first hand contact with Hitler and knew what the atmosphere was like down in that dank, somber, surreal and depressing bunker. The whole feel that they are out of touch with everything and live in some mystical, surreal existence is captured to perfection (Traudl Junge testified to that fact). I have read Toland's "Hitler," as well as numerous books about the war and Hitler's character, including "Hitler's Mind: the Secret Wartime Report," and I can tell you that Alec Guiness' portrayal of Hitler is nothing short of a miracle. Hopkins' portrayal in The Bunker is your typical mad, raging and over the top Hitler that we are used to seeing. He did a poor job and that film is vastly inferior to this one. Guiness must have had a real, personal interest in Hitler as a character and figure, and when he combines that with his amazingly brilliant acting talent, the results are as if you are watching what it was really like to know and deal with Hitler during those last days of the war. The understated psychotic zeal, the moments of romantic extravagance, the oh so Germanic and Wagnerian tragic sensibility of either total victory and domination or absolute destruction and annihilation of the German people, they're all portrayed here with excellent subtlety. Indeed, Wagner's heroic Lohengrin is played to great effect in the opening scene in one of the most beautiful juxtapositions I have ever seen in film. This is sheer genius. Somebody said that this is a foreign production. It's got to be British; only the Brits can produce something of such magnificent accuracy backed up by a wonderfully subtle artistry with underlying themes of the apocalypse. One can tell that The Bunker is an American production, so vastly inferior to this in that it has literally no subtext. Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a remarkable achievement, rich and even philosophical in its portrayals. There is so much to this great film I cannot continue anymore. Never again will Hitler be portrayed so accurately by an actor. Alec Guiness, you are (or were) the Man! Buy this film now!
Accurate historical account of Hitler's last ten days February 10, 1999
stricklm@bunt.com (Schoneberg-Kubelberg, Germany)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Hitler-The Last Ten Days is an historically accurate account of Adolph Hitler's last ten days in his Berlin bunker. This film provides an insightful view of the characteristics and the personality of Adolph Hitler. Must viewing for all serious students of History!
Academy Award Worthy Performance By Alec Guiness October 4, 2001
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Great movie. If you like WWII documentaries and movies you should like this. Incredible performance by Alec Guiness. (Obi Wan himself!) Also see Bridge on the River Kwai for another greeat performance. Their is so much more to Alec than Star Wars. This movie claims to be based on an eyewitness account of Hitler's last 10 days in the bunker. I am a little suspicious of supposedly historial accurate movies. However, I believe this movie captures the spirit of Hitler if not his exact words. This guy was definitely the worlds biggest looney. In the end he seems more pathetic than menancing. Also features intercuts of actual WWII footage. Hitler is shown eating cake while the German people are cutting up a dead horse on the street to eat. Joseph Goebbels warns against white surrender flags while the actual footage shows white flags all over the ruined city. Anyone interested in Nazis or Hitler will like this. A character study of Hitler. (Freud would have had a field day with this guy!) I give it 4 stars because it ends to abruptly. What happens after Hitler shoots himself??? If I gave away the ending, get off your computer and study your history books! Filmed in England with all British actors.
FASCINATING February 6, 2002
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought "The Bunker" and "The Last Ten Days" at the same time and found both to be very compelling movies. "The Bunker" was a broader movies as it focused on the characters and the atmosphere that surrounded the Fuhrer in his last few months living under ground -- although I thought maybe a little too much whitewashed focus on Albert Speer. "The Last Ten Days" had one central character as he coped with the final demise of his Third Reich. One who did not know or understand what horrors his Third Reich inflicted on others may have felt a little compassion for the man whose entire world was collapsing around him. To compensate for such thoughts, the movie would periodically flash scenes of such horrors as the concentration camps, massacres, and even the sacrifice of the German people just to keep the the regime alive.Both "The Bunker" and "The Last Ten Days" theorized as to what the last few moments might have been like for Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler. "The Bunker" has the couple approaching death as a matter of fact phenomenon (e.g., just bite cyanide capsule and pull the trigger). "The Last Ten Days" has Hitler revealing that he knew the war was lost when the Germans lost at Stalingrad. In "The Last Ten Days" Eva Braun is horrified that her new husband had been willing to sacrifice millions of lives in some vain attempt to save himself and Hitler has one last tanctrum when he sees that Eva died before he did. Nobody, though, knows what happened behind closed door those last few minutes although I think the scenario is "The Bunker" was probably closer to the truth. The opera music in the background was also a nice touch.
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